Brittney Cooper's recent article in the fashionable leftist online magazine, Salon, excoriated New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd for her column criticizing the movie "Selma." According to Cooper, Dowd's primary offense was her alleged cultural bias against African-Americans. A dozen years ago, when Hillary Clinton and other liberals had thrown in the towel with respect to opposing President George W. Bush's Iraq invasion, Dowd stood up and kept fighting the good fight. She consistently opposed Bush and his policies. Her liberal bona fides are impeccable. However, even a liberal icon like her now finds herself roasted at the stake of political correctness....

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